Therapy for
Career Anxiety & Burnout
Anxiety, doubts, and fears about your career rarely begin and end with the job.
When you’ve worked hard to build a career and life you’re proud of, feeling dissatisfied with it or excessively anxious can be particularly destabilizing. Those who’ve spent their lives in high-stress, high-performing environments, in particular, may feel lost about how to pull back and reflect, let alone figure out what they want or how to feel better.
You may not want to slow down, but something has to change.
For those who have spent their lives always making the “right” decisions, finding themselves—after all that—feeling scared at work, burnt out, or directionless can be destabilizing and even terrifying.
But the options that seem on the table may feel even less palatable—who am if I’m not striving for the next best thing? Will people still value me if I no longer fit into a specific mold? Will I? How do I even define what “value” means to me now?
Career anxiety is often so intense because it can reveal more foundational lessons we internalized to adapt and survive when we were younger—for instance, that love and affection from others were contingent on you being excellent or achieving things; or that it was your responsibility to over-perform to keep those around you secure and stable.
Together, with compassion and deep understanding, we’ll work to alleviate some of your immediate symptoms of anxiety, and explore some of the questions and early lessons you learned, to understand how much of that you want to hold onto and what you are ready to let go of.
Common career-related themes in therapy
As we begin to explore the specific events or dynamics inducing career-related anxiety in the present, we’ll begin to make connections about why these anxieties run so deep. In my work with professionals in tech, finance, law, and the arts, common themes that emerge are:
Chronic procrastination, perfectionism, and avoidance
Career ambitions and beliefs around value
Fear of disappointing others
Uncertainty about what kind of life you want or should want
Impacts of career stress on your relationships
Your coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety, and if they still work
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Schedule a free, 15-minute consultation to see what it would be like to work together.